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Nascente
Fluxo Inverso
Over time, Baden and its bathing culture sustained a space for collective leisure, healing, worship and bonding experiences around the city's thermal waters. Nowadays, the numerous thermal water springs in the city are all private properties. There's only one spring accessible, visible and audible, to the population. The remaining springs are hidden, tamed, covered and channelled.
Reflecting on the system of control and domestication imposed on nature, during her residency in Baden, Brazilian sound artist Carla Boregas employed an underwater microphone, a hydrophone, to record the underground thermal water springs of Baden's Bäderquartier. Those recordings were assembled in a lathe cut record, a single engraved vinyl called "Nascente".
For the Closing of the residency program “Meehr Baden” by Bäderkultur, to the further development of "Nascente", Carla Boregas collaborated with the Appenzell-based double bass player, experimental musician and sound art mediator Patrick Kessler and his Chuchchepati Orchestra. Together Boregas and Kessler will present "Nascente - Fluxo Inverso", an installation and performance in three acts.
Chuchchepati (pronounced djudjepati) means horizon in Nepali and is a district of Kathmandu. The name of the orchestra refers to the origin of its large loudspeakers, commonly placed at public spaces in Kathmandu. Assembled all together, the up to 32 loudspeakers function as a polyphonic sound installation, which is often played live. Streaming down from Badstrasse - Unter den Rosskastanien (Bauzone5400) to the historical bath Bad zum Raben in the Bäderquartier, the Chuchchepati Orchestra will host Kessler's double bass and Boregas' electronics together with the springs' audio recordings of "Nascente". Through live performances and the installation the sounds will continuously flow through the multichannel loudspeaker installation.
"Fluxo Inverso" (reverse flow in English) can be seen as a metaphor in which the natural dynamics of things are altered or reversed, defying the expected course of events. Instead of continually moving forward, there is a need to go back, review and reconsider. Like a stream returning to its source, there is a return to the origins, to rediscover a forgotten essence. And such as water, the realm of sounds rises up, hitting the surface and blurring the borders between the private and public. Sounds, noises and tones simmer, bubble, boil up and cool down, and the interactions between orchestra, loudspeaker installation and audience become a horizon-expanding collective listening and viewing experience.
Reflecting on the system of control and domestication imposed on nature, during her residency in Baden, Brazilian sound artist Carla Boregas employed an underwater microphone, a hydrophone, to record the underground thermal water springs of Baden's Bäderquartier. Those recordings were assembled in a lathe cut record, a single engraved vinyl called "Nascente".
For the Closing of the residency program “Meehr Baden” by Bäderkultur, to the further development of "Nascente", Carla Boregas collaborated with the Appenzell-based double bass player, experimental musician and sound art mediator Patrick Kessler and his Chuchchepati Orchestra. Together Boregas and Kessler will present "Nascente - Fluxo Inverso", an installation and performance in three acts.
Chuchchepati (pronounced djudjepati) means horizon in Nepali and is a district of Kathmandu. The name of the orchestra refers to the origin of its large loudspeakers, commonly placed at public spaces in Kathmandu. Assembled all together, the up to 32 loudspeakers function as a polyphonic sound installation, which is often played live. Streaming down from Badstrasse - Unter den Rosskastanien (Bauzone5400) to the historical bath Bad zum Raben in the Bäderquartier, the Chuchchepati Orchestra will host Kessler's double bass and Boregas' electronics together with the springs' audio recordings of "Nascente". Through live performances and the installation the sounds will continuously flow through the multichannel loudspeaker installation.
"Fluxo Inverso" (reverse flow in English) can be seen as a metaphor in which the natural dynamics of things are altered or reversed, defying the expected course of events. Instead of continually moving forward, there is a need to go back, review and reconsider. Like a stream returning to its source, there is a return to the origins, to rediscover a forgotten essence. And such as water, the realm of sounds rises up, hitting the surface and blurring the borders between the private and public. Sounds, noises and tones simmer, bubble, boil up and cool down, and the interactions between orchestra, loudspeaker installation and audience become a horizon-expanding collective listening and viewing experience.
Artists involved in «Nascente » :
Upcoming concert installations of «Nascente»:
Past concert installations of «Nascente»:
08.09.2024
Badstrasse - Unter den Rosskastanien, Baden
Installation 17:30
Nascente
─ Opening-Performance
08.09.2024 – 14.09.2024
Badstrasse - Unter den Rosskastanien, Baden
Nascente
─ Sound-Installation täglich 12:00 - 20:00